PEMMICAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pemmican mean? 

• PEMMICAN (noun)
  The noun PEMMICAN has 1 sense:

1. lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians

  Familiarity information: PEMMICAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PEMMICAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Lean dried meat pounded fine and mixed with melted fat; used especially by North American Indians

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Synonyms:

pemican; pemmican

Hypernyms ("pemmican" is a kind of...):

meat (the flesh of animals (including fishes and birds and snails) used as food)